Code of practice for sawmill plants

2006·3.2 MB·English

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CODE OF PRACTICE FOR
SAWMILL PLANTS
2006
developed under the Environmental Protection anc
Enhancement Act
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ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT
CODE OF PRACTICE FOR SAWMILL PLANTS (made under the
Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act, RSA 2000, c.E-12, as
amended and Substance Release Regulation (AR 124/93), as amended)
Table of Contents
1. Definitions
2. General Requirements
3. Registration Application/ Administration
Requirements
4. Air Requirements
5. Wastewater Requirements
6. Waste Management Requirements
7. Reclamation Requirements
8. Reporting Requirements
9. Record Keeping Requirements
10. Code of Practice Administration
Schedule 1 Registration Information
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PART 1; DEFINITIONS
1.1.1 All definitions in the Act and the regulations under the Act apply
except where expressly defined in this Code of Practice.
1.1.2 In this Code of Practice:
(a) "Act" means the Environmental Protection and
Enhancement Act, R.S.A. 2000, c.E-12, as amended;
(b) "air contaminant" means any solid, liquid, or gas or
combination of any of them in the atmosphere resulting
directly or indirectly from activities at a s awmill plant;
(c) "bottom ash" means the product of wood waste
combustion collected or retained from the bottom of a
wood waste incinerator or of a t hermal energy system;
(d) "day" means any consecutive 24-hour sampling period
that reasonably represents a c alendar day;
(e) "existing sawmill plant" means any sawmill plant that
was in operation before November 17, 2006;
(f) "existing sawmill plant with a major expansion"
means an existing sawmill plant that, on or after
November 17, 2006, adds new capacity to a production
line by some physical modification requiring capital
investment, but does not include:
(i) the addition of a p roduction shift;
(ii) adjustments, repairs, replacements or
maintenance made in the normal course of
operations;
(iii) changes that do not result in an increase in the
release of a substance into the environment; or
(iv) short-term testing or temporary modifications to
machinery, equipment or processes that do not
cause an adverse effect;
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(g) "fugitive emissions" means air contaminant emissions to
the atmosphere originating from a sawmill plant source
other than a flue or stack but does not include sources
which may occur due to breaks or ruptures in process
equipment;
(h) "grab" when referring to a sample, means an individual
sample collected in less than 30 minutes and which is
representative of the stream sampled;
(i) "industrial runoff' means surface water resulting from
precipitation that falls on or traverses the plant developed
area;
(j) "industrial wastewater" means the composite of liquid
wastes and water-carried wastes, any portion of which
results directly from an industrial process carried on at a
sawmill plant;
(k) “ISO 17025” means the international standard,
developed and published by International Organization
for Standardization (ISO), specifying the management
and technical requirements for laboratories;
(l) "local environmental authority" means the
Department, in the Province of Alberta, or the agency that
has the equivalent responsibilities for any jurisdiction
outside the Province;
(m) "month" means calendar month;
(n) "new sawmill plant" means any sawmill plant means for
which construction commences on or after November 17,
2006;
(o) "plant developed area" means the areas of the sawmill
plant used for the storage, processing, or handling of raw
material, intermediate product, by-product, finished
product, process chemicals, or waste material;
(p) “PM” means particulate matter;
(q) "PM2.5" means particulate matter that is less than 2.5
micrometres in diameter;
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(r) "PMio" means particulate matter that is less than 10
micrometres in diameter;
(s) "professional engineer" means a professional member
or registered professional technologist (engineering)
under the Engineering, Geological and Geophysical
Professions Act;
(t) "regulations" means the regulations under the Act;
(u) "sawmill plant" means all buildings, structures, process
and pollution abatement equipment, planer mills, log
yards, wood waste incinerators, thermal energy systems
and storage facilities used in and for the processing of
wood, or associated with the processing of wood,
including the land, other than undeveloped land, that is
used for the processing of wood, where the sawmill plant
produces more than 20 million foot board measures of
lumber annually, and
(i) is fixed to one location, or
(ii) is operated at any one location for a t otal of more
than 365 days in 2 c onsecutive calendar years;
(v) "shutdown" means the time after the cutoff of feed;
(w) "start-up" means the initial introduction of material, or
electrical or thermal energy, with the simultaneous
production of products for which the plant was designed;
(x) "thermal energy system" means a system that is
designed to bum wood waste and recover the heat of the
combustion, where the system
(i) has a rated production output of no more than 10
megawatts of electricity or its steam equivalent
under peak load, and
(ii) uses only wood waste generated at that sawmill
plant as fuel;
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(y) "this Code of Practice” means the Code of Practice for
Sawmill Plants, published by the Department, as
amended;
(z) "urban area" means all land within the boundaries of a
city, town, or village;
(aa) "week" means any consecutive 7-day period;
(bb) "wood ash" means the product of wood waste
combustion collected or retained by a thermal energy
system pollution abatement equipment;
(cc) "wood waste" means any discarded non-treated wooden
material; and
(dd) "wood waste incinerator" means any unit of the plant
designed to destroy wood waste by burning in burners,
including but not limited to beehive burners or silo
burners.
PART 2 ; GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
2.1.1 Any registration holder who constructs, operates or reclaims a
sawmill plant must do so in accordance with this Code of
Practice.
2. 1 .2 Any conflict between the application and the terms and conditions
of this Code of Practice shall be resolved in favour of this Code of
Practice.
2. 1 .3 The terms and conditions of this Code of Practice do not affect or
negate any other requirements under the Act, the regulations or
any other applicable legislation.
2.1.4 The terms and conditions of this Code of Practice do not affect
any rights or obligations created under any other authorization
issued by the Department.
2.1.5 The terms and conditions of this Code of Practice are severable.
If any term or condition of this Code of Practice or the application
of any term or condition is held invalid, the application of such
term or condition to other circumstances and to the remainder of
this Code of Practice shall not be affected by that invalidity.
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2.1.6 If the registration holder monitors for any substances or
parameters which are the subject of limits in this Code of Practice
more frequently than is required, using procedures authorized in
this Code of Practice, then the registration holder shall provide
the results of such monitoring as an addendum to the next reports
required by this Code of Practice.
2.1.7 The registration holder shall immediately notify the Director in
writing if any of the following events occurs:
(a) the registration holder is served with a petition into
bankruptcy;
(b) the registration holder files an assignment in bankruptcy
or Notice of Intent to make a p roposal;
(c) a r eceiver or receiver-manager is appointed;
(d) an application for protection from creditors is filed for the
benefit of the registration holder under any creditor
protection legislation; or
(e) any of the assets which are the subject matter of this Code
of Practice are seized for any reason.
SECTION 2.2: Analytical Requirements
2.2.1 With respect to any monitoring required pursuant to this Code of
Practice, the registration holder shall:
collect;
(a)
(b) preserve;
store;
(c)
(d) handle; and
(e) analyze
all samples in accordance with the following unless otherwise
authorized in writing by the Director:
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(i) for air monitoring:
(A) the Alberta Stack Sampling Code REF.
89 (1995), published by Alberta
Environment, as amended;
(B) the Methods Manual for Chemical
Analysis of A tmospheric Pollutants , A EC
V93-M1 (1993), published by Alberta
Environment, as amended; or
(C) the Air Monitoring Directive (1989),
published by Alberta Environment, as
amended or replaced;
(ii) for water monitoring:
(A) the Standard Methods for the
Examination of Water and Wastewater
(2005), published by the American
Public Health Association, the American
Waterworks Association and the Water
Environment Federation, as amended; or
(B) the Methods Manual for Chemical
Analysis of Water and Wastes (1996),
published by the Alberta Research
Council, as amended.
2.2.2 The registration holder shall analyze all samples that are required
to be obtained by this Code of Practice in a l aboratory accredited
pursuant to ISO 17025 standard, as amended, for the specific
parameter(s) to be analyzed, unless otherwise authorized in
writing by the Director.
2.2.3 The registration holder shall comply with the terms and
conditions of any written authorization issued by the Director
under 2.2.2.
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PART 3: REGISTRATION APPLICATION/ADMINISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS
SECTION 3.1: Application for Registration
3.1.1 An application for registration of a proposed new sawmill plant
shall contain at a m inimum, the following information:
(a) all information set out in Schedule 1 ; a nd
(b) any other information requested by the Director.
SECTION 3.2: Air Quality Modelling Information
3.2.1 At least three (3) months before the installation of a new thermal
energy system, the registration holder shall:
(a) conduct air quality modelling at the sawmill plant that
(i) models all anticipated air emission sources at the
sawmill plant; and
(ii) is conducted in accordance with the models for
particulate matter in the Alberta Air Quality
Model Guidelines (2003), published by Alberta
Environment, (Publication T/689) as amended;
and
(b) submit to the Director a r eport containing, at a m inimum,
(i) the results of air quality modelling, and
(ii) a comparison of the modelling results with the
PM 2.5 ambient air quality limits in the Alberta
Ambient Air Quality Objectives, published by
Alberta Environment, as amended.
SECTION 3.3: Reporting of Changes
3.3.1 In addition to any reporting under this Code of Practice, the Act
and the regulations, the registration holder shall inform the
Director in writing within three (3) months after any change to the
information submitted to the Director in an application respecting
the sawmill plant.
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